Death, Cremation and a Carbon Print...

[Hexavalent]

When I first read "DIY", I thought "self-cremation"! Egads

 

[holmburgers]

hahahah, but of course!

 

[eddym]

When I first read "DIY", I thought "self-cremation"! Egads

Paging Dr. Kevorkian....

 

[holmburgers]

Maybe there's a market for the cryogenics people.... they could save a lot of money by just being content with eternity in a portrait.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

That would require the Portrait of Dorian Gray to make the cryogenics folks happy.

 

[Jeff Bannow]

It's always great to read all the Christmas-themed posts here on APUG.

There is a long history of art from the dead - what about those who made books out of skin?

Maybe I shouldn't give you all any ideas ....

 

[holmburgers]

Hmmm, skin books! WoW!

And then there's all those death daguerreotypes. There was a great one on display at the Nelson-Atkins museum of art in KC that had a squirrel in a coffin. Supposedly it was a parody on the practice. Very bizarre indeed

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Well, the post-mortem daguerreotypes and other photo types isn't all that bizarre when you think about it - often times families were separated by distances that could not be traversed in a timely fashion, so they hired a photographer to take a picture of the deceased to send to the relatives who couldn't attend the service. This was especially true of infant post-mortem photos because sometimes it was the only way the extended family could see the child.